Perceived Feeling of Security: A Candidate for Assessing Remission in Borderline Patients ?

Abstract

Abstract:The aim of the study was for the first time to examine whether adults diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder feel that their sense of security improved through treatment with Dialectical Behavioral Therapy conducted one or two years earlier. In the current study perceived security was defined as a feeling of being free of worrisome or threatening phenomena. Twenty-three patients (2 men and 21 women) aged 18 to 57 years, were recruited from five teams in Southwest Sweden. A questionnaire was constructed where responses were given on visual analogue scales. There were three questions about security, namely perceived security when completing the questionnaire as well as estimated perceived security before and after treatment. The three questions were embedded among 19 other questions which dealt with various aspects of quality of life. Results indicated three main results: (a) the patients reported feeling more secure following the treatment, (b) mental health of the patients and their health in a broader view appeared to be decisive for the perception of security and (c) the perception of greater security remained one or two years following treatment. The conclusion was that perceived feeling of security might be able to add a new dimension to currently used ways to assess the effects of the treatment of borderline patients and it might also be considered to be included in a future concept of borderline remission.

Hierarchical Cluster Analysis of Human Value Priorities and Associations with Subjective Well-Being, Subjective General Health, Social Life, and Depression across Europe

“…Some people perceive themselves as healthy despite suffering from one or more chronic diseases, while others perceive themselves as ill, when no objective evidence of disease can be found. Nowicki and co-workers (Nowicki et al 2018) suggested that the perception of health was a personal value. In 1946, the World Health Organization defined health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.…”

“…The Eurobarometer (2012) survey revealed that health leads the list of values associated with happiness in all European member states assessed except Denmark, where respondents first mention love. Several studies relate SGH with the human values of Stimulation (e.g., Sagiv and Schwartz 2000), Hedonism (e.g., Pino-Domínguez et al 2016), Achievement (e.g., Minkkinen et al 2017), Power (e.g., Verstraete et al 2018), Security (e.g., Norlander et al 2015), Conformity (e.g., del Pilar Sánchez-López et al 2014), Tradition (e.g., Baiocchi-Wagner andOlson 2016), Benevolence (e.g., Bevan and Sparks 2014), and Universalism (e.g., Hughes 2017).…”